"You are like the infant Hannibal," said Winterbourne.
"No, I ain't!" Randolph declared at a venture.
"You are not much like an infant," said his mother. "But we have
seen places," she resumed, "that I should put a long way before Rome."
And in reply to Winterbourne's interrogation, "There's Zurich,"
she concluded, "I think Zurich is lovely; and we hadn't heard half
so much about it."
"The best place we've seen is the City of Richmond!" said Randolph.
"He means the ship," his mother explained. "We crossed in that ship.
Randolph had a good time on the City of Richmond."
"It's the best place I've seen," the child repeated.
"Only it was turned the wrong way."
"Well, we've got to turn the right way some time,"
said Mrs. Miller with a little laugh. Winterbourne expressed
the hope that her daughter at least found some gratification
in Rome, and she declared that Daisy was quite carried away.
"It's on account of the society--the society's splendid.
She goes round everywhere; she has made a great number
of acquaintances. Of course she goes round more than I do.
I must say they have been very sociable; they have taken
her right in.
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